Familiar Quotes

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The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists… — Thomas Kuhn
The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence. — John C. Maxwell
Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the… — Arthur Conan Doyle
All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence. For many, that addiction cannot… — Richard G. Scott
Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone. — Lisa Alther
It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he… — Annie Besant
That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I have only slipped away into the next room, I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still… — Henry Scott Holland
I'm interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too. — Lana Del Rey
Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have been known for… — Hannes Alfven
The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The… — Tsung-Dao Lee
If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up. — Garry Winogrand
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one… — Abraham Pais
The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger… — Jeff Cohen
The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd our… — Arthur David Ritchie
It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits… — Kenichi Ohmae
The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste… — William Buckland
No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted… — Paul Feyerabend
Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the… — Ludwig Boltzmann
I've always done the style that I loved, so I didn't mind sending an old pair of jeans down the runway. It's about that style.… — Hedi Slimane

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